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The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
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Clarity Habit Maturity
Don’t practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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Inner Beauty Light Practice
I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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Life Thinking Yoga
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Differences Ideas Soul
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Mind Passive Yoga
Be inspired but not proud.
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Inspired Inspiring Proud
There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Everywhere Ourselves Reality Universal
Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.
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Inspiring Willingness Willpower
Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
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Broken Inspiring Yoga
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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Divinity Flames Yoga
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
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Forget Past Yogi
Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends.
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Backbends Meditation Posture
During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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Clouds Moving Sky

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